Re: gEDA-user: Installing gEDA from 20050820 Suite CD on Fedora

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

I take part of the blame.  Marvin put the tarballs up in response to
my bleating about how GTKWave is unsupported.  IIRC, somebody posted
a notification on this list several months ago saying that the
developers were dropping support for GTKWave.  [1]  Therefore, Marvin
took the initiative and got the latest code (Aug 2005, BTW),
contributed some fixes and put the result on the gEDA ftp site.  

Here's my suggestion for how to move forward:

1.  Marvin or I can contact Tony Bybell, who seems to be the author,
and ask him what the status of the code is -- supported, unsupported,
about to be dropped, or whatever.

2.  If it's unsupported, then it should find a home, and we can adopt
it.  Personally, I think the source should go to Sourceforge, with
Marvin and myself (and whoever else wants to) as admins.  Then we can
move the tarball over to sf.  Alternately, if Marvin's company, or
SEUL or some other host wants to host it, that's also fine. 

3.  If it is supported, then we just need to clarify which version is
supported (there's a 1.3.x branch and a 2.0.0 branch).  Also, we need
to find out where the most up to date source is archived.

That's my $0.02.  Marvin, do you want to contact Tony, or shall I?
Either way is fine with me.

Stuart


[1] If my memory is faulty (possible) or it was another project which
was being orphaned, I apologize.

> 
> [snip]
> >I just stuck it up at:=20
> >
> >ftp://ftp.geda.seul.org/pub/geda/contrib/
> >
> >I've downloaded everything to install gcc R4 and am compiling it. Should=20
> >be finished tonight.
> 
> 	Okay, what exactly should I do with these tarballs?  Are these
> official releases or what?  I generally don't leave things in contrib
> for very long.
> 
> 								-Ales
>